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Language Planning and Policy: Course Outline

This course provides students with an awareness and understanding of the importance of the three inter-related but independent components of language planning and policy: (1) actual practice, (2) beliefs and values, and (3) language management.

Course Outline

  • Introduction to Language Planning and Policy (LPP)
  • Levels of Language Planning
  • Types of Language Planning
  • Historical Frameworks and Theories of Language Planning and Policy
  • The Legal Status of Languages and Language rights
  • Language Minoritisation and Endangerment
  • The Interrelations between Globalization, Nationalism, Ethnicity, Identity and Language Policy
  • Language and Vitality
  • The Relationship between Linguistic Culture, Language Attitudes/Beliefs and Ideologies and Language Policy
  • Language, Power and Political Economy
  • Language in Education (LiE)
  • Mother Tongue Education, Pakistani Languages and Language Policy
  • Linguistic Ecology/Eco-Language Planning and Policy
  • Linguistic Genocide & LPP
  • Language Rights and LPP

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Textbook

A book comprising various topics from different sources (articles) will be compiled.